Update on Obama Care RFID mandatory March 23 2013 is from my understanding NOT TRUE based on doing research if you have valid GOVT website proof let me know.
This doesn’t mean the technology isn’t here because it is being used on animals and medical patients now. The question is: is this the technology that will be used for the mark of the beast 666 mentioned in the bible that we are not to take if we want to go to heaven?
RFID is already in use all around us. Humans have a verichip implanted for medical purposes. Dogs and Cats have verichips implanted as an ID tag to be located? Or used an EZPass through a toll booth? Or paid for gas using ExxonMobils’ SpeedPass? Then you’ve used RFID.
There is no law requiring a label indicating that an RFID chip is in a product. Once you buy your RFID-tagged jeans at The Gap with RFID-tagged money, walk out of the store wearing RFID-tagged shoes, and get into your car with its RFID-tagged tires, you could be tracked anywhere you travel. Bar codes are usually scanned at the store, but not after purchase. But RFID transponders are, in many cases, forever part of the product, and designed to respond when they receive a signal. Imagine everything you own is “numbered, identified, catalogued, and tracked.” Anonymity and privacy? Gone in a hailstorm of invisible communication, betrayed by your very property.
But let’s not stop there. Others are talking about placing RFID tags into all sensitive or important documents: “it will be practical to put them not only in paper money, but in drivers’ licenses, passports, stock certificates, manuscripts, university diplomas, medical degrees and licenses, birth certificates, and any other sort of document you can think of where authenticity is paramount.” In other words, those documents you’re required to have, that you can’t live without, will be forever tagged.
Consider the human body as well. Applied Digital Solutions has designed an RFID tag – called the VeriChip – for people. Only 11 mm long, it is designed to go under the skin, where it can be read from four feet away. They sell it as a great way to keep track of children, Alzheimer’s patients in danger of wandering, and anyone else with a medical disability, but it gives me the creeps. The possibilities are scary. In May, delegates to the Chinese Communist Party Congress were required to wear an RFID-equipped badge at all times so their movements could be tracked and recorded. Is there any doubt that, in a few years, those badges will be replaced by VeriChip-like devices?
Surveillance is getting easier, cheaper, smaller, and ubiquitous. Sure, it’s possible to destroy an RFID tag. You can crush it, puncture it, or microwave it (but be careful of fires!). You can’t drown it, however, and you can’t demagnetize it. And washing RFID-tagged clothes won’t remove the chips, since they’re specifically designed to withstand years of wearing, washing, and drying. You could remove the chip from your jeans, but you’d have to find it first.
That’s why Congress should require that consumers be notified about products with embedded RFID tags. We should know when we’re being tagged. We should also be able to disable the chips in our own property. If it’s the property of the company we work for, that’s a different matter. But if it’s ours, we should be able to control whether tracking is enabled.
Security professionals need to realize that RFID tags are dumb devices. They listen, and they respond. Currently, they don’t care who sends the signal. Anything your companies’ transceiver can detect, the bad guy’s transceiver can detect. So don’t be lulled into a false sense of security.
With RFID about to arrive in full force, don’t be lulled at all. Major changes are coming, and not all of them will be positive. The law of unintended consequences is about to encounter surveillance devices smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.
Scott Granneman teaches at Washington University in St. Louis, consults for WebSanity, and writes for SecurityFocus and Linux Magazine.
http://financearmageddon.blogspot.ca/2013/03/32313-countdown-to-rfidbreaking-news.html
Is this the mark of the Beast?. It sure sounds like it. I’ll pass.
I think you misunderstand the meaning of a “Mark”…Like the Mark of Kane, the Mark of a murderer…you cant tell by looking at a person if they are or are not a murderer. The Mark of the beast is what you do with your hands and what you think in your mind…think and do evils business, youve taken the Mark of the beast…666 is the number of his name. Being Marked is not for humans to see, just God. Not saying evil wont try and tattoo or chip you…Their “F”ing crazy!!!! But if you stand against evil, you will be ostracized and unable to buy or sell…But not Marked!! Many have already taken the Mark of the beast, and they know who they are!!
“Being Marked is not for humans to see, just God.”
Beg to differ, ARF.
“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.” Rev. 13: 16 – 18 KJV.
Now, if ONLY God can see that number, how do Satan’s minions know who they can buy or sell to?